Month: December 2020
Ads Inc. Shut Down, But The Tools It Used To Trick People On Facebook Have Lived On
In the fall of 2019, Facebook sent a cease-and-desist letter to Ads Inc., a San Diego marketing firm that bought over $50 million in Facebook ads that used the images of celebrities without their permission to trick people into enrolling in difficult-to-cancel monthly subscriptions. Ads Inc. responded by laying off…
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Longtime investor and operator Adam Nash says he just launched a new fintech startup
Adam Nash, a Silicon Valley-born-and-bred operator and investor, is back at it again. Today, on his personal blog, he announced that he has started a consumer fintech company that has already garnered initial funding from Ribbit Capital, along with other “friends and angels” who appear to have also pitched into…
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Hyundai reveals the EV platform for its future vehicles
The Hyundai Motor Group are not new hands at building electric vehicles, having produced the Soul EV since 2014, not to mention the “relentlessly sensible” Niro EV, the Kona EV and also the upcoming Ioniq brand of electric vehicles. But all of the mo… Source
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Massachusetts lawmakers vote to pass a statewide police ban on facial recognition
Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass a new police reform bill that will ban police departments and public agencies from using facial recognition technology across the state. The bill was passed by both the state’s House and Senate on Tuesday, a day after senior lawmakers announced an agreement that ended…
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Black Friday sales continuing online…. on hacker forums hacker targeting a PC
Although Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be over, Kaspersky has discovered that there are still plenty of sales to be found on the Dark Web where a driver’s license can cost as little as $5 and credit card details start around $6. To gain a better understanding of how…
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Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers can now watch music videos
If you want to watch the occasional video while listening to tunes on Amazon Music Unlimited, now you can. As highlighted by Android Police, the service has started streaming music videos — though you’ll need to be a paying subscriber to access them…. Source
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